Was Centers Laboratory hit by ransomware?

Centers Laboratory was listed by the worldleaks ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the worldleaks ransomware group?

worldleaks is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Centers Laboratory breach?

worldleaks published data attributed to Centers Laboratory. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Centers Laboratory

Claimed by Worldleaks · listed 9 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedOct 6, 2025
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Worldleaks
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Healthcare
Listed on leak site: Oct 6, 2025

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Centers Laboratory is a clinical laboratory services provider operating across New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. It serves healthcare facilities including skilled nursing facilities, assisted living centers, primary care physicians, and home care patients, offering testing across microbiology, molecular, hematology, chemistry, and pathology disciplines. It is part of the Centers Health Care network, described as the Northeast's post-acute care leader.

Industry: Clinical & Diagnostic Laboratory Services
Address: 85 Horse Hill Rd, Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Centers Laboratory is a healthcare-sector entity handling regulated medical and patient data (HIPAA-covered) for vulnerable populations including nursing home and assisted living residents. Data_published status indicates confirmed exfiltration of what is almost certainly protected health information (PHI) and PII at scale, meeting the critical threshold.

The worldleaks group claims to have published data belonging to Centers Laboratory, with the disclosure status listed as data_published. No specific ransom demand or data volume has been stated, but the post implies exfiltration of data from a healthcare laboratory serving vulnerable patient populations.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Patient laboratory test results
Patient personal and demographic information
Healthcare facility client records
Medical test orders and requisitions
Provider and institution contact data

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Centers Laboratory is a healthcare sector organization that provides comprehensive laboratory services to nursing homes, assisted living centers, and home care patients. It offers various testing services, including blood hematology, diabetes, infectious diseases, and pathology-related. Their solutions are designed to improve patient outcomes, streamline operations, and offer strategic insights to healthcare providers.

Sources

Victim sitecenterslab.com
Leak posthttps://worldleaksartrjm3c6vasllvgacbi5u3mgzkluehrzhk2jz4taufuid.onion/companies/4716560680

Source

Indexed 9 months ago

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Disclosure context

About worldleaks

Based on the limited available data, worldleaks is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in May 2025 and appears to be primarily financially motivated, having claimed 134 victims in a relatively short timeframe since its emergence. The group's origin and organizational structure remain unclear, with no publicly documented information from major cybersecurity firms or law enforcement agencies regarding their country of origin, potential affiliations, or operational model. Their targeting patterns indicate a focus on English-speaking countries, particularly the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, with additional activity observed in Germany and Japan, while their sector targeting shows a preference for healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and consumer services organizations. Due to the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by established threat intelligence sources, specific details about their attack methodologies, encryption techniques, extortion tactics, and notable campaigns have not yet been comprehensively analyzed or reported by organizations such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity research firms. The group appears to remain active as of the most recent observations, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiling awaits further analysis and documentation by established cybersecurity authorities. The group has been linked to 173 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 18, 2025; most recent post July 2, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

October 6, 2025Centers Laboratory listed by worldleakson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by worldleaks

worldleaks has been linked to 173 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Healthcare sector, which has 2,600 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Centers Laboratory is reported in United States, a country with 11,033 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by worldleaks means Centers Laboratory appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on worldleaks's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.